The Intangible Elements of Culture in Ethnoarchaeological Research

Introduction (Stefano Biagetti and Francesca Lugli).- Part 1: Essays.- Chapter 1: A plea for general anthropology (Alain Gallay).- Chapter 2: Ethnoarchaeology of the intangible culture: a trajectory towards Palaeoethnology as a global discipline? (Alberto Cazzella).- Chapter 3: The production and circulation of Alpine jade axe-heads during the European Neolithic: ethnoarchaeological bases of their interpretation (Pierre Pétrequin and Anne-Marie Pétrequin).- Chapter 4: Ethnoarchaeology: a conceptual and practical bridging of the intangible and tangible cultural heritage divide (Paul Lane).- Chapter 5: To think in the sign of the plant. To think in the sign of the plough. To think in the sign of carbon. How cultivation recreates the world. (G. Forni).- Part 2: Case Studies.- Chapter 6: An intangible knowledge of landscape: creating people and politically charged places in northern Ethiopia (Diane Lyons).- Chapter 7: Secondary products exploitation: preliminary ethnoarchaeological insights from alpine cases study (Francesco Carrer).- Chapter 8: Mongolian nomads and their dogs (Francesca Lugli).- Chapter 9: Made in desert: evaluating the role of traditional knowledge for the adaptation to arid environment in central Sahara (Stefano Biagetti).- Chapter 10: 3000 ans de nomadisme sur le site de Tsatsyn Ereg au centre de la Mongolie (Irene Baroni, Jamyian-Ombo Gantulga, Jérôme Magail, Chimiddorj Yeruul-Erdene).- Chapter 11: The pastoral writings of the Fiemme valley (1650-1950). Lapidary vs. extemporaneous expressions (Marta Bazzanella, Giovanni Kezich, Luca Pisoni).- Chapter 12: The use of the senses in the technical processes of resin tapping and wood tar making: an ethno-archaeological approach (Sylvain Burri and Aline Durand).- Chapter 13: Craft production and capitalism: Intangible interfaces (Jerimy J. Cunningham).- Chapter 14: God Will Help You: Sadaka Gifting in Northern Ghana (Joanna Casey).- Chapter 15: Prehistoric anthropomorphic figurines with masks as the basis for the Kuker's ritual in Bulgarian folklore (Malgorzata Grebska-Kulow).- Chapter 16: Stone toys and games among Mongol children (G.Nandinbilig).- Chapter 17: Not just fuel: Food and technology from trees and shrubs in Falia, Saloum Delta (Senegal) (Raquel Piqué, Mathieu Gueye, Karen Hardy, Abdoulaye Camara, Edmond Dioh).- Chapter 18: Romanian salt springs, intangible cultural heritage, archaeological reconstruction: a variable geometry (Marius Alexianu, Olivier Weller, Robin Brigand).- Chapter 19: Sickles and forks: traditional rural knowledge of agricultural practises and its possible applications in archaeology (Javier Ruiz-Pérez, Carla Lancelotti, Bernardo Rondelli, Marco Madella, Juan Jose García-Granero, Leonor Peña-Chocarro).- Chapter 20: Residue analysis of the floors of a charcoal burner's hut at Naour (Morocco) (Alessandra Pecci, Sylvain Burri, Aline Durand, Fernanda Inserra, Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros).- Chapter 21: A thousand years old pottery knowledge in Andalusia: The popular tradition as a built bridge with the past. (Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández).- Chapter 22: Le torchis de la France du Nord : étude ethnoarchéologique sur la variabilité technique et les processus de dégradation (Alessandro Peinetti).- Chapter 23. The intangible weight of things: approximate nominal weights in modern society (Nicola Ialongo, Alessandro Vanzetti).- Chapter 24 Inequalities in "egalitarian" societies: the calculation of real value as a way to visualize social distance. (Manuela Pérez-Rodríguez, Assumpció Vila-Mitja, Jordi Estévez-Escalera).- Chapter 25: African-European Archaeology: The material resistance and political struggle of the Rosarno African Workers (Italy). (Luca Pisoni).- Chapter 26: The manufacture of traditional bread-baking pans: ethnoarchaeology and the safeguarding of intangible heritage. (Biljana Djordjevic).